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Page 23
Translation Narrative.
After sailing between east and
north the distance of one hundred
and fifty leagues more and finding
our provisions and naval
stores nearly exhausted, we took
in wood and water, and determined
to return to France having
discovered VII that is 700
leagues of unknown lands.
* * * * * * * * * * *
Cosmography.
In the voyage which we made
by order of your Majesty, in
addition to the 92 degrees we ran
towards the west from our point
of departure, before we reached
land in the latitude of 34, we
have to count 300 leagues which
we ran northeastwardly, and 400
nearly east along the coast before
WE REACHED THE 50TH PARALLEL OF
NORTH LATITUDE, THE POINT WHERE WE
TURNED OUR COURSE FROM THE SHORE
TOWARDS HOME. BEYOND THIS POINT
THE PORTUGUESE HAD ALREADY SAILED
AS FAR NORTH AS THE ARCTIC CIRCLE,
WITHOUT COMING TO THE TERMINATION
OF THE LAND.
VERSION OF RAMUSIO,
Narrative.
Navigando fra levante &
tramontana per spatio di leghe
150, PERVENIMO PROPINQUI ALLA
TERRA EGE PER IL PASSATO
TREVORONO I BRETTONI, QUALE
STA IN GRADI 50 & havendo
horamai consumati tutti li
nostri armeggi & vettovaglie,
havendo scoperto leghe 700,
& piu di nuova terra, fortnitoci
di acque & legue, deliberammo
tornare in Francia.
* * * * * * * * * * * *
Cosmography omitted.
Translation Narrative.
Sayling northeast for the space
of 150 leagues WE APPROACHED TO
THE LANDE THAT IN TIMES PAST WAS
DISCOVERED BY THE BRITONS, WHICH IS
IN FIFTIE DEGREES. Having now
spent all our provision and
victuals and having discovered
about 700 leagues and more of
newe countries, and being
furnished with water and wood we
concluded to returne into Fraunce.
(Hakluyt, Divers voyages).
(Cogswell, Coll. of N. Y. Hist.
Society, Second series, I.)
Ramusio in omitting the cosmography and confining his version to the
narrative would have left the letter without any designation of the
northerly limit reached by Verrazzano, had he not transferred to the
narrative, the statement of the latitude attained, namely, the
fiftieth degree, from the cosmographical part; which was therefore
properly done; though as an editor he should have stated the fact.
But he transcended his duty entirely in asserting, in qualification
of the latitude, what does not appear in the letter, that it was
near where the Bretons had formerly made discoveries, and omitting
all reference to the Portuguese. The Bretons are not mentioned or
even alluded to in either portion of the original letter. The effect
of this substitution therefore is to relieve the original from
making a fake claim to the discovery north of Cape Breton, by
admitting the discoveries of the Bretons, and making the alleged
extent of the Verrazzano discovery, as already remarked, a mistake
of nautical observation only. That it was deliberately made, and for
that purpose, is shown by his taking the designation of the latitude
from the same sentence in the cosmography as that in which the
mention of the Portuguese discoveries occurs, in qualification of
the latitude.
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